Just for Fun - On the Loose (Saga)

[veatch]

Started recording some covers just for kicks. Then had to figure out what to do with them. Not interested in going down the mechanical royalty route, so figured I'd plop them on YouTube. But I know no one will want to see my mug playing karaoke to old songs, even if I fully re-record the audio (which I did).

So... I employed AI to create a music video.

Nothing near perfect, but here it is.

I'm open to feedback, but note that I'll likely not change anything on this one - I want to move onto the next song.

Edit to add - to say that better - I'm not discouraging feedback - I really do want it, so I the next one can be better. Just setting expectations that for my own sanity, this one needs to be dun...

 

[Saul Goodman]

Nice! How does one create an AI video?

 

[specialk]

Very creative! Thanks for sharing.

 

[veatch]

Nice! How does one create an AI video?

1> Get an idea
2> Storyboard out the idea
3> Break it down into 3 to 5 second shots
4> Get an account on an AI video service (there's a ton of them out there - I used Kling)
5> Create characters and locations (Kling calls them "elements")
6> For each shot, create a prompt to describe the shot (takes about 2 paragraphs to describe a 3 second clip)
7> Wait for the result
8> Be disappointed, because it is nothing close to what you were thinking of or asked for
9> Update the prompt and try again
10> Repeat steps 7 to 9 anywhere from 2 to 12 times until you get something reasonable or you just give up
12> Totally rewrite the storyboard after you realize that AI ain't going to give you the results you need to do what you were originally thinking of
13> Repeat 5 through 12 as needed
14> Use DiVinci Resolve to splice it all together and make edits that AI just couldn't handle
15> Feel somewhat satisfied until you notice your main character has 3 arms in one of the key scenes
16> Re-repeat steps 7 through 9 again
17> Realize you could have taken your phone out into the real world and did all of this in about half of the time if you weren't such an introvert and could handle asking family and friends to work with you in shooting a music video

Yeah, roughly that.

 

[hamerhead]

That was great! Hell yeah!

You make it look way too easy. I hate you now.

 

[veatch]

If it makes you feel better, it took about 30 takes over 2 months to get the vocals. That stuff is *way* out of my range...

 

[hamerhead]

Sounds great! I love the fact you did the key parts on guitar. Makes it even better.

But after not hearing that song in years, it gave me a helluva earworm....

 

[Steve Haynie]

Any successful attempt to play like Ian Crichton is worthy of respect!

 

[duncans]

I'm impressed. Way cool.

 

[velorush]

Fantastic all around. The AI video was interesting and more to the point not a distraction. Always enjoy your playing and great to see those three guitars in action.

 

[gorch]

Impressive! That was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for making it.

 

[scottcald]

Fun. Always loved that extremely muted arpeggio part at the beginning of that song.

 

[Vintage Hamer-Lover]

... and three beautiful guitars, too!